Time passes in the blink of an eye, winter passes and spring comes.

At this time, the capital was filled with spring after the heavy snow melted.

But obviously, at this time, not many people were in the mood to pay attention to this vibrant spring scenery. A restructuring of the imperial examination has accumulated too much dissatisfaction. There are many scholars who are causing trouble everywhere. The entire two capitals and thirteen provinces are like a powder barrel. Countless people grit their teeth, hoping that one day, who will raise the flag of uprising first.

Fortunately, Ye Chunqiu's prestige is still enough.

His Highness King Lu suddenly entered Beijing on the eve of the imperial examination announcement that the imperial examination would be reorganized. The purpose was to let His Highness King Lu stay in the capital during this sensitive period. It was obvious that he had already prepared for those unjust officials who had bad intentions to suppress them at any time.

Although those who had ill-thinking intentions saw the opportunity and saw the court's favor, they still did not dare to act rashly at this moment.

The spring examination is approaching, and many scholars, although they are cursing, their hearts are like this student Zhang. They have no choice but to pick up business and law studies, and then study hard.

Their mood is actually extremely contradictory. Under such complex moods, their hearts are in conflict, but in the end... their arms can't resist their thighs.

After all, there are many people like Zhang Shengyuan. Although they are discouraged, they are completely disappointed, they are gritting their teeth, and they hate this court. In their hearts, they still recognize the sage masters, but people must live...

If a person wants to live, he needs food, clothing, housing and transportation. If a scholar who only knows eight-legged essays cannot be ranked on the list, what is the difference between him and a useless person?

To continue the family, you must have fame and official status.

Therefore, even though they cursed in their hearts, they still had to pick up the books, just like they read the eight-legged essay art back then, and read these unsightly miscellaneous books.

Seeing that the spring exam was about to come, Beizhili had posted a list of documents, and the Gongyuan was ready, and the officers and soldiers began to ban nearby streets.

This time, there were many candidates applying for the exam. On the one hand, because the opportunity was great, the court allowed all scholars to be qualified for the exam. In addition, the court needed a large number of Jinshi Juren this time, ten times that of previous years. Because of this, many scholars who were disheartened have now signed up and have nearly 200,000 people, which accounted for the majority of the students.

In the examination room in Beizhili alone, more than 20,000 people took the exam, which was unprecedented in scale. The pressure on the examiners who invigilated the exam was also extremely high. Fortunately, the cabinet has been busy with this matter these days, and has prepared solutions for many possible difficulties, but there has not been much trouble.

Zhang Shengyuan entered the examination room with everyone's scholars. After taking the exam for one day, one hour of the law paper, it only allows you to write some laws on the Ming Dynasty law. The business paper, one hour of the business paper, mostly some calculation questions and some knowledge about business. Finally, it asks you to write an article explaining what is mutual communication.

The classics and history are very involved and list a lot. Zhang Shengzhu did not review the classics and history, and he actually found that he had never seen some questions. Fortunately, he had a rough impression of the classics and history, and filled in the answer based on these impressions.

Three hours later, the candidates finally came out. This time was different from the previous exam. When they left the exam room, scholars with good talents often liked to get together and discuss what they were doing this time, what they wrote about their articles, and how confident they were.

But this time, people like Zhang Shengyuan were all covered in their faces, afraid of hitting an acquaintance.

There are students who were not sure about taking the exam in the past, but now they seem very concerned. They refuse to part with each other outside the exam room, call their friends and tell each other how they do the questions.

Mr. Zhang just returned home silently. Wang looked at him worriedly. He just shook his head and hid in the room with shame.

At the same time, all the collected papers have begun to be reviewed. In order to prevent changes in the middle, the court required that the list must be released within five days, so the examiners have become busy.

During these five days, every minute and every second, Ye Chunqiu felt that time had passed too slowly. Seeing that there was nothing else, he simply entered the palace every now and then to comfort the still uneasy His Majesty.

Zhu Zaiyao has been having strange dreams these days, and his face is a little bad. Looking at Ye Chunqiu, he always feels invisible trust. At this moment, he can't help saying: "Father Ya, I have always dreamed of someone treason over the past few days, and the whole world has rebelled. Alas... I really can't rest assured."

Ye Chunqiu looked at Zhu Zaiyao's young face and sighed quietly: "As the saying goes, if you think about something on a day and dream about something at night, this must not be true. Your Majesty thinks too much. Even if I have a rebellion, I will just suppress it. Why should Your Majesty worry? Your Majesty relaxes, and after the results are released, the situation will be very different."

Zhu Zaiyao seemed to be confirming, and said, "Will it really be very different?"

In fact, he has always been suspicious. The reason why he chose the eight-legged essay reform is not so much that he firmly believes that this is a magic pill, but rather that this is his unconditional trust in Ye Chunqiu.

But in his heart, he vaguely felt that the eight-legged essay reform was equivalent to completely abandoning Confucianism, or putting this Confucianism in a less conspicuous position, which was equivalent to offending all the scholars in the world to death.

Ye Chunqiu gave him a sure answer: "If there is any mistake, I would like to come and see you."

Zhu Zaiyao was stunned, but couldn't laugh or cry, and his anxiety became a little calmer.

Just as Zhu Zaiyao was worried, the day to release the results finally came.

On this day, Mr. Zhang left the house early in the morning and wanted to go to the tribute court to read the list.

Even if Zhang Shengren is repulsed, there is one thing that is inevitable. Whether he likes this exam or not, this exam is enough for everyone to change their destiny.

If a person with a big family and a big family needs to continue to increase the influence, then the children must be attracted. If someone like Zhang Shengyuan, who is just an ordinary family background and has a little wealth, then there is no need to say, otherwise, how can he change his destiny?

With a complex and uneasy mood, Zhang Shengzhen walked outside the tribute courtyard and saw that there were already a crowd of people outside the tribute courtyard.

There are a lot of people watching the list this time, and tens of thousands of people are crowded here. He took a lot of effort to squeeze forward.

After much anticipation and worry, the results finally began to be released.

The quota of Jinshi in Northern Zhili is thirty-five, the quota of first-class juren is about 500, while the quota of second-class juren is about 2,000.
Chapter completed!